Car-roof



W. H. SLATTEN.

CAR ROOF.

APPLICATION HLED Nov. 22. 1917. 1,332,638.

RENEwED AUG. 13,1919.

m n, I@ W, w x A; 5 m ,n im m 4for convenient transportation, etc., ILOI secure by of the sub-sections, and in addition is adapt ed to permit limited independent movement of said parts in unison with the other car rootl parts in the limited lateral flexnre that takes place in a `car in actual use.

The commercial merit of the present structure lies in the fact that said sub-seetions are capable of being packed eompactly as distinguished from. the much wire roofing Sheets employed in the patented structures above referred to.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to Letters Patent, is

l. In a car roof, the combination ot' a plurality of transversely arranged channel members the anges of which are npstanding7 and a plurality of transversely arranged sheet metal sections having marginal flanges adapted to overlap the ilanges ot' said channel members, eaeh sheet metal section comprising a central and a pair of outer subsections connected together by inter-engaging return flanges7 and a ruiming board having a width greater than the central 'sub- Sections and adapted to overlap the joints between said central and out-er sub-sections, substantially as set forth.

2. In a car root. the combination of a plurality of transversely arranged channel members the flanges of which are upstanding, and a plurality of transversely arranged sheet metal sections having marginal flanges adapted to overlap the flanges of said channel members, each sheet metal seetion comprising a central and a pai-r of outer subsections connected together by inter-engaging return ianges with the ends of each of said return llanges bent upwardly and connected to the marginal flanges of the snbsections,v and a running board having a width greater than the central sub-sections and adapted to overlap the joints between said central and outer sub-sections, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, illinois, oi November 1917.

this 17th day WILLIAM H. SLATTEN. 

